![]() This was the top-mentioned of the whole season so far – a surprising level of live engagement given how many people streamed the show before it came out officially. 162,740 mentions of the show between 9pm and 10.15pm ET (the episode was 70 minutes long).We found 29,620 mentions of “leak” (or leaked, or leaking, or leaks) in the week leading up to the show airing.Īnyway, we still measured data during the official show time as usual. So basically everyone (not us) watched the show online in advance of its official air date. Last week saw HBO Spain accidentally air episode 6 instead of episode 5 during the usual slot. In the second, we’ll tell you exactly what the top mentioned moments are. In the first, we won’t go into the details of what happened in the episode but we’ll tell you which characters were mentioned most and when spikes in mentions occur. **SPOILER NOTES: There are two parts to this post. Let's also say Gendry actually is the Usain Bolt of Westeros and he makes it back to Eastwatch by dusk and that before anyone works on making sure he doesn't die of hypothermia, they immediately send a raven to Daenerys at Dragonstone.Episode six of Game of Thrones Season 7, Beyond the Wall, has (officially) come to our screens and we have the data. Let's say Jon and his zombie hunters leave Eastwatch at dawn and walk until mid-afternoon while looking for a Wight to capture. ![]() Mostly, we just have to be like, "Well, that must have taken a while, so let's assume some time has passed." But the whole ambiguous timeline thing gets really murky this week. Game of Thrones doesn't give us many clues about the passage of time. While we're talking about Gendry and his quick feet, let's take a second to review the timeline. When was that established? Was it when Gendry spent three and a half seasons rowing forever back to King's Landing?Īnd yeah, I know it didn't take him that long to row back-I'm being facetious because I'm angry, but the point is still valid: When was this established? It feels like an excuse to have Gendry not die a week after Thrones brought him back and, in that case, why have him go on this mission at all? It's a waste of everyone's time, especially Gendry's. When sh*t gets real, Jon knows they have to send someone back to get help and he volunteers Gendry as tribute because he's.the fastest? Yeah, okay. How did anyone know Gendry was the fastest? Speaking of "because plot," how about the ONE Wight that wasn't created by the White Walker that apparently created all the other ones in that tiny group (because they all died instantly when Jon took out the Walker)? That's so lazy convenient, GOT. Why was there exactly ONE Wight who wasn't created by that White Walker traveling with it? And sorry, GOT, but you're better than that. So why was there a small group of Wights and one White Walker just hanging out away from the others? Go ahead and argue that they were patrolling or scouting or whatever but we all know the real reason: BECAUSE PLOT. That said, I do pay attention when they're onscreen and lately, when they are, it's in giant hoards because they're no longer just a quietly gathering force they are a full-blown army. ![]() I watch Game of Thrones for the political intrigue and the dragons and awesomely hilarious, unlikely buddy-cop pairings. I don't like the White Walkers or the Wights. There was inexplicably a conveniently tiny group of Wights traveling conveniently away from the pack with exactly one actual White Walker. The Game of Thrones writers were afraid we wouldn't believe in a zombie dragon so they made sure to let us know that animals can become Wights too, by spending a lot of time and one expendable no-name member of the group on a zombie polar bear fight and it was so dumb I literally screamed "THIS IS STUPID" at my TV, much to the chagrin of everyone watching with me. That sounds shocking, right? But it wasn't, because of the zombie bear. The Night King threw an ice spear at it and it died dead and fell into the frozen water. If you're reading this, you've signed on for spoilers so ~SPOILER~ we lost a dragon this week. That zombie bear was such heavy-handed foreshadowing, my kids' favorite fictional dragons felt it. So we.kill all but one?Īny member of the group: And transport it back, with like a Valyrian Steel cage? Or maybe knock it out with some zombie chloroform? Jon: No, no, they pretty much always travel in packs of like a hundred.Īny member of the group: Got it. Jon: We'll walk North and, you know, catch one.Īny member of the group: Do we know where they might be?Īny member of the group: Okay.So we find one of these things alone. ![]()
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